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Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Although short in length, the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024 is very significant legislation. It addresses important constitutional infirmities in law that were recently identified by the High Court. The High Court ruled that a person who commits murder as a child but turns 18 years of age before he or she is sentenced cannot be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Deputy McGrath. I will follow up on that particular case again. I have weekly meetings with the NCSE to ensure children with additional needs have an appropriate school place. I reassure the Deputy that where section 67 powers need to be applied - when schools are asked to take in particular children - we have done so across the country. We do not want to be a position of having...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: When people apply for a primary medical certificate and it is refused, they have to go to the appeals board. The Minister will be aware that the appeals board was not sitting for quite some time. In my office it has been lately brought to my attention that there is a waiting list of more than two years for people with serious disabilities applying to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I understood the board had been reconstituted.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That is right.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: After the resignation of the board that took place a number of years ago, the Department of Finance was successful in reappointing the board. I will raise the issue with the Minister, Deputy Chambers, this week in the context of our budget discussions and see whether there are any issues I can help with. I imagine that the heart of the issue is not lack of funding, but the difficulty of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The board is in place. The backlog is the issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Okay.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

John Lahart: I see the Minister for Justice is here so she might be able to respond to this. I raised with the Taoiseach a few months ago, before the Dáil recess, the issue of individuals or groups wearing masks during protests, thereby preventing identification by CCTV, Garda body cameras or eyewitnesses in the event of criminal behaviour being alleged against them, or even detection by An Garda...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I have consistently engaged with the Garda Commissioner and colleagues on what more can be done to support An Garda Síochána in its work and efforts to combat and deal with what have become more violent and more challenging protests. No stone should be left unturned. Certainly, while every individual has the democratic right to protest peacefully, there is no reason people should...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I raise the issue of the single school enrolment plan and the taskforce for Dublin 15. Eleven children are currently without a school place in Dublin 15 and parent advocacy groups I met yesterday have identified that more than 30 students will require a school placement in 2025. There are huge concerns that the process will not be speedy enough to deal with the situation for 2025. Can the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for raising this question. The precise reason I am setting up the Dublin 15 taskforce is to ensure the NCSE, schools, patrons and boards of management in that area are all communicating. I want that taskforce also to work on a common application process so we are not in this position next September. The reality at the moment is that there is an information gap in the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Minister will be aware that adult education classes have been extremely important for a huge number of learners on an annual basis. They have enabled people to develop skills and obtain qualifications that literally changed their lives. In Cavan-Monaghan, thanks to the good work of the education and training boards, ETBs, over many years, we have had active and dynamic programmes....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The Government has invested significantly in further education and training in recent years by increasing funding from approximately €900 million in 2020 to just over €1 billion. That is all in current terms. We have also put in place a new grade for adult educator, to which the Deputy referred. That post and role was formally...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is 31 years since the decriminalisation of sexual activity between men and six years since the Government, when apologising for the State wrongs, promised it would quash any such convictions which wrecked the lives of many. Disregard legislation was recommended by the working group report published last year by the Minister for Justice. She also stated in January of this year that the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I share the Deputy's frustration and his ambition to right many of the wrongs inflicted on many people over the years. I thank the individuals and various groups and organisations which came together to make the recommendations and ensure we could right those wrongs. The work in ongoing and I hope to progress it as soon as possible but I do not have a definitive date for it yet.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are five contributors left so I ask them to contribute by keeping to the time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

David Stanton: What is the Government policy on dispatch-down, which is compensation paid on constraints and curtailment of renewable energy generation? Leading operators are to be compensated by individual homes and businesses, albeit indirectly, by higher bills. How much is estimated to be paid out this year and how much was paid out last year for this?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will have to come back to the Deputy on the matter. It is a specific issue and he is looking for a specific figure I do not have at the moment. I will find it and make sure the Deputy gets it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Alan Kelly: I return to this strange letter from the Minister for Health to the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, the Taoiseach and many others regarding the children's hospital. Why has the Government not asked the board why the independent adjudicator keeps awarding large sums in favour of the contractor? It is a pretty obvious question. Sums of €17 million and...